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| Cadence "…right from the vocalese opening of "(It) Had To Be (You)," Ms. Latz offers a nicely centered soprano voice, with a sensibility that incites a lyric with her innate dramatic instincts. Her "Bewitched" strikes just the right note of coy mischievousness, and-God Bless her!!-she opens it with the verse-"He's a fool and don't I know it/but a fool can have his charms." If her "Lover Man" doesn't have the earthy resignation of Billie's demimondaine, she has managed to recast it and make it a convincing tale of a Bryn Mawr graduate's rude awakening to love's dirty linen. "Avril(a Paris)" opens with very effective Latz French parlando set against the rhythm team's spiky swing, and ends with her exuberant all-stops-out vocalizing, still in French. Both "Gone (With the Wind)" and "(I Only Have) Eyes (You)" swing handily, with Ms. Latz demonstrating her scat chops on the former. If she has a tendency to affect breathiness when striving for intimacy, as in the opening of "Night (and Day)" and right straight through an exaggeratedly understated reading of "(How In)Sensitive," she nails the nasty realization that "The Thrill Is Gone" perfectly. The rhythm team is steady and sturdy throughout, each member credited with contributing to the recital's arrangements, and it's clear…that this is a case of vocalist and rhythm section occupying the same artistic time and space." - Alan Bargebuhr |
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